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The FBI has an issued an informative awareness document on the growing dangers of Romance Scams as follows: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/romance-scams “I’m very active on Facebook,” said the woman, who agreed to share her story in the hopes that others might avoid becoming victims. “I thought it was safe.” After she friended…

AN EVIL paedophile’s years of abuse and horrific sex tourism was uncovered after he “accidentally” uploaded child abuse images to FACEBOOK. David Grant, 66, was picked up by cops last August and told officers he found underage girls “attractive and pretty” – but was released on bail and able to…

Police officers are set to monitor social media sites in a bid to stamp out hate crime and cyber bullying. Social media companies are looking into installing police icons on their sites which users can click if they feel threatened. The function would allow an officer working remotely to access…

Taiwanese researcher finds evidence of an earlier data breach whilst participating in Facebook’s bug bounty programme A security researcher participating in a Facebook bug bounty programme said that after penetrating the security of a server belonging to the social network he found evidence that at least one other hacker had…

Here’s a fascinating story about a hacker who caught a hacker. (We’re using the word hacker in a legally non-committal sense here: someone with technical skills who finds ways to do things with a computer system that weren’t supposed to happen.) We don’t know who the first hacker is, but…

More than a month after objectionable comments had appeared on the Facebook page of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bihar police has arrested a 20-year-old engineering student for hacking the Facebook profile and email account of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief. According to an India Today report, Economic Offences…